While progressives across Canada relish the NDP victory in Alberta last week, an inconvenient truth about the election results has been largely overlooked: Rachel Notley secured her majority government with just 41 per cent of the popular vote.
While only four in 10 Albertans voted for Notley’s party, the first-past-the-post electoral system gave the NDP 53 seats in the legislature — or a 62 per cent majority.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a majority with just 40 per cent of the vote in the 2011 federal election, Canadians on the left side of the political spectrum were up in arms.
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